The RapidWeaver Show

On the show this week: Ben and Dan discuss some handy htaccess tips. There's an update on where we are with the first RapidWeaver 7 "beeta" and we round up the latest addons and videos available on the Community site. We also manage to squeeze in a couple of user questions!

On this week's show Ben and Dan have a special RapidWeaver 7 announcement (it's definitely worth listening for, trust us)! We also discuss the latest addon news, let you know about some new RapidWeaver video tutorials, and preview some awesome updates coming to the RapidWeaver Community site.

Ben and Dan talk about a two new RapidWeaver 7 features: Health Check and portable documents. Our topic this week is “Web Typography”. We talk about how you can use custom fonts on your site, and the pros and cons of doing so.

Ben and Dan discuss what you need to do before getting your first RapidWeaver site online. We also let you know about four new exciting addons this week and rant about web design trends.

Ben and Dan discuss custom 404 error pages, talk about the progress being made with RapidWeaver 7, and let you know about some exciting new addons (SEO fans will be excited, and there's a new 5th party developer!).

Ben is joined by Dan to discuss robots, new features coming in RapidWeaver 7, and cover the latest addon releases. There's been two very nice new themes this week: Writer theme by Nick Cates Design and the Florence theme by Brandon Lee Theme Design. Our topic this is all about the robots.txt file. We discuss why you need one, how you create one with RapidWeaver and what you options are for controlling how Google indexes your RapidWeaver site. Our tip this week is all about making sure your themes are up to date. We even have time to let you know about an awesome new feature making its way in to RapidWeaver 7! We'll be back same time, same place, next week. Until then, Happy Weaving! Loopback Manta typed.com theme Writer theme by Nick Cates Design Florence theme by Brandon Lee Theme Design Control how Google indexes your site video tutorial The robots.txt file explained Google documentation on robots.txt Foundation theme

Ben is joined by Dan and Nik this week. The three of us discuss the new “movable addons folder” feature that’s coming in RapidWeaver 7. A movable addons folders means if you work on multiple machines, you can sync your addons across all machines with DropBox. We let you know that YabDab has a new stack called Filter. Filter helps you create an animated Pintrest-style layout. BlueBall Design have been developing RapidWeaver addons for 12 YEARS (wow!). Charlie is celebrating by offering 40% off all his RapidWeaver addons. We also have two new RapidWeaver tutorial videos online; “ Performance enhancements and HTTPS with CloudFlare” and “ Control How Google Indexes Your RapidWeaver Site”. Our topic this week is “Using GIT with RapidWeaver”. We discuss getting started with GIT and different ways you can track changes to your RapidWeaver project file and exported site with a GIT repository by using GitHub as a central repository. And finally, we've added a new section to the show called "RapidWeaver Tips". Our first tip is: Always make sure your plugins are up to date! We'll be back same time, same place, next week. Until then, Happy Weaving! Typed.com Filter RapidWeaver stack by YabDab Armadillo RapidWeaver plugin BlueBall Design 40% off all RapidWeaver addons Video Tutorial: Control How Google Indexes Your RapidWeaver Site Video Tutorial: Performance enhancements and HTTPS with CloudFlare RapidWeaver video tutorial series Getting started with GIT GitHub.com GitHub Mac app Tower for Mac

Ben is joined by Nik to discuss why you should start your own blog. We also cover the latest RapidWeaver updates, community news and answer your questions. We'll be back same time, same place, next week. Until then, Happy Weaving! Stop google indexing your RapidWeaver site Foundation by Joe Workman RapidBot plugin Importing RapidWeaver 5 projects in to RapidWeaver 6 Realmac guide for upgrading to RapidWeaver 6 Booklit stack by 1 Little Designer RW/Writer Stacks Cloud Integrate your WordPress blog in to RapidWeaver with WP-Blog Typed.com Tumblr stack by Joe Workman Building an audience with Typed Ask us a question for next weeks show

Ben and Dan chat about Christmas, crazy New Years Eve parties, their new years resolutions (or why they don't have any) and cover the latest happens in the RapidWeaver world. We'll be back same time, same place, next week with a better prepared show! Until then, Happy Weaving. Joe Workman sings Typed.com Reflow stack PageSafe stack RapidBot 2 (for robots.txt file) Happy New Year Weavers!

Ben is joined by Dan to bring you your weekly RapidWeaver update. We discuss some new addons and what's been happening on the RapidWeaver Community website (and what you can expect to see early next year!). We answer all your questions (well mainly just Brad's questions!) about resource aliases, folder path structures, Christmas themes, developer resources and Christmas wish-lists. Also, what would we do with £52 bajillion pounds? Keep listening as there's a special treat at the end ;) We'll be back same time, same place, next week. Until then, Happy Weaving! Optic Stats by 1 Little Designer RapidWeaver Community activity feed Simple Background Gradient stack Typed.com themes RapidWeaver Plugin SDK RapidWeaver Theme SDK P.S. Merry Christmas :)

Ben and Dan discuss what a RapidWeaver conference might look like, respond to a couple of "complaints" about usernames and mixing up turtles and toads. In community news we let you know about Elixir's new theme and three new stacks from Marathia. We call up Nik to help us answer all your RapidWeaver related questions, including project file sizes, the benefits of using a CDN and some more button builder info. In a new section of the show, Nik reads release notes. (Yes, you read that correctly, Nik reads release notes!). We even have time for an educational chat about history and philosophy. What more could you want?!? If you have a question for next weeks show, you can ask us on the forums. We'll be back same time, same place, next week. Until then, Happy Weaving! Focused theme from Elixir Morphext Stack Simple Background Gradient stack Morphist Stack RapidWeaver Conference discussion CloudFlare Button Builder forum thread

Ben and Dan talk about some new RapidWeaver 7 features, new addons, answer all your questions and, most importantly, let you know what we got up to on the Realmac Christmas party! We haven't got a topic for you this week as we had a lot of interesting user questions, including: what apps do we use to edit graphics & photos, how to use RapidWeaver on multiple computers and setting up a complex online store. You can ask us a question on the forums and we'll answer it next week. We'll be back same time, same place, next week. Until then, Happy Weaving! EditsPro stack DetailsPro 2 stack Modular Image theme RapidCart Pro PayLoom Cartloom

On this weeks show Ben and Dan discuss SEO again! After so many of you requested we coved SEO again, we discuss in more detail URL structures, meta tags, browser titles, HTTPS, and much more. We also chat about how we approach the murky world of SEO on our own sites. There's been 2 new addons released: In Motion Slideshow and Scrying. We didn't have any user questions this week: please let us know if you have a question We'll be back same time, same place, next week. Until then, Happy Weaving! Beaver and Bison show artwork Typed.com themes In Motion Slideshow stack by Michael David Design Scrying stack tMM Tekh CloudFlare SSL (https) Ask us a question

This week on The RapidWeaver Show Ben and Dan answer all of you questions. Dan lets us know what the team did to celebrate Realmac Software turning 13. In community news SuperFlex 3 has been released. Silver subscribers can now listen to the extra podcast episodes (we just released episode 3), there's a new video tutorial on Keyboard Shortcuts and the Activity feed is now online! There's no topic this week due to the amount of questions, but we'll have one for you next week. We'll be back same time, same place, next week. Until then, Happy Weaving! SuperFlex 3 RapidWeaver stack RapidWeaver development with Nik Fletcher podcast RapidWeaver Keyboard Shortcuts video tutorial RapidWeaver Community activity feed

This week on The RapidWeaver Show Ben talks Swedish and falls over whilst Dan shows off his German skills and pours himself a coffee. In community news there's a new theme from Michael David Design, an update for RW Writer is out, we discuss the subscriber podcasts and Ben gives you an update on the activity feed. In our topic this week we discuss "Responsive Websites"; what are they, why you should have one and how to build a one with RapidWeaver. We take a look at how you create responsive content, and how to show/hide content on certain devices. We'll be back same time, same place, next week. Until then, Happy Weaving! Kinfolk RW writer updated to 2.2 Joe Workman interview Foundation theme for responsive sites BootSnap3 theme for responsive sites Foundation 6 framework BootStrap 4 framework uikit framework Adding a bootstrap button to your Typed.com site RapidWeaver bootstrap themes by Realmac FormLoom 3 MailChimp Campaign Monitor Ask us a question (please, we need some more!)